Declaration dv Roy, portant que toutes monnoyes d'or legeres des païs estrangers, seront conuertios en especes d'or de poids portans le nom du Roy que la fabrication des escus d'or de France sera continuée, & que toutes especes d'or legeres seront décriées dans trois mois: auec defenses d'en exposer apres ledit temps, sur les peines y contenuës ...
A 1640 royal declaration issued under Louis XIII and printed in Paris by S. Cramoisy, concerning the recall of light foreign gold coins and the continued minting of French gold ecus, held by the Newberry Library. The first picture is a rough woodcut initial letter with a standing figure among foliage, useful as a decorative capital for historical print work. The second shows paired coin illustrations with a laureate profile head on one side and a crowned cross-and-shield design on the other, set beside printed text, giving designers period coinage motifs and a classic seventeenth-century type layout.
